Extractions: Jan A Schouten studied electrical engineering at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft and then for several years he was an electrical engineer. However he came from a family with substantial amounts of money and when he inherited money he gave up his electrical engineering job and went to Leiden University to study mathematics. Schouten's doctoral thesis, presented in 1914, was on tensor analysis, a topic he worked on all his life. That same year he became professor of mathematics at Delft and held the post for nearly 30 years. However, A Nijenhuis one of his co-workers, wrote:- In Schouten resigned the post, divorced his wife and remarried. From then on, he lived in semiseclusion at Epe. Nijenhuis summarises Schouten's life in the following words:- A descendant of a prominent family of shipbuilders, Schouten grew up in comfortable surroundings. He became not only on of the founders of the "

Poster Of Schouten Jan A Schouten. lived from 1883 to 1971. Jan A Schouten worked ontensor analysis and its applications. Find out more at http http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Posters2/Schouten.html